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Monument details

Summary

Around 1888 a Bread and Meat Store was built east of the Canteen on an east-west orientation, separated from the Canteen by the width of a passage, with its east end abutting the earlier Straw Barn. The Bread and Meat Store was a single-storeyed building with a hipped roof and a verandah along the south front. The eastern three-fifths formed the Meat Store, served by a louvre set centrally on the roof, while the western two-fifths served as the Bread Store. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Monument Types

• STOREHOUSE (Demolished, Post Medieval to Modern - 1888 AD? to 1945 AD?)

Full description

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Summarised from report:

Around 1888 a Bread and Meat Store was built east of the Canteen on an east-west orientation, separated from the Canteen by the width of a passage, with its east end abutting the earlier Straw Barn. The Bread and Meat Store was a single-storeyed building with a hipped roof and a verandah along the south front. The eastern three-fifths formed the Meat Store, served by a louvre set centrally on the roof, while the western two-fifths served as the Bread Store. (1)

<1> English Heritage, 2004, The Western Heights, Dover, Kent: Report No. 2: The Citadel (Unpublished document). SKE17690.

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